The Heroine’s journey in literature and film is often about where the story spends its time and about where and how it ends. Joseph Campbell, author of, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,”and arguably the greatest mythologist of time, recounts his own quest of his life-long exploration of the different mythical traditions, which he called “the one great story of mankind.” (xi) Compared to the Hero’s journey in films and books it usually ends with a moment of glory. Many movies do not show strong female roles, however; t.v. shows today are trying to change that. Copious amounts of shows now try to display the strong female role, in reality, however; the average person could agree do not compare favorably to men in movie/books. The evolution
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Much of the credit for that can go to Alison Bechdel, an American cartoonist who invented the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in films. It first appeared in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. Bechdel credited the idea to a friend, Liz Wallace, to the writings of Virginia Woolf. The Bechdel test asks “whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes added.” The significance of the Bechdel test is important because it can be applied as a broad metric to show the big picture of how women, and their perspectives are systematically underrepresented in media. It should not be used to critique the value of any individual work. According to a database containing nearly seven-thousand movies shows that over forty percent of movies do not pass the Bechdel test. However, television shows like Broad City and Girls are trying to make a change for modern women in different forms of …show more content…
Girls an American television series that premiers on HBO it was created by and starring Lena Dunham, Girls is a comedy-drama following the lives of four young women living in New York City. The show's premise and major aspects of the main character Hannah that were drawn from Lena Dunham's own life. Girls has inspired a debate about its treatment of feminism. It has been praised for its portrayal of strong women and it’s female friendship. Within its episodes it does pass the Bechdel test. The female characters do talk about men in it’s episodes but it doesn’t only ever involve a woman’s life revolving around a
Much of the credit for that can go to Alison Bechdel, an American cartoonist who invented the Bechdel test, an indicator of gender bias in films. It first appeared in the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. Bechdel credited the idea to a friend, Liz Wallace, to the writings of Virginia Woolf. The Bechdel test asks “whether a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. The requirement that the two women must be named is sometimes added.” The significance of the Bechdel test is important because it can be applied as a broad metric to show the big picture of how women, and their perspectives are systematically underrepresented in media. It should not be used to critique the value of any individual work. According to a database containing nearly seven-thousand movies shows that over forty percent of movies do not pass the Bechdel test. However, television shows like Broad City and Girls are trying to make a change for modern women in different forms of …show more content…
Girls an American television series that premiers on HBO it was created by and starring Lena Dunham, Girls is a comedy-drama following the lives of four young women living in New York City. The show's premise and major aspects of the main character Hannah that were drawn from Lena Dunham's own life. Girls has inspired a debate about its treatment of feminism. It has been praised for its portrayal of strong women and it’s female friendship. Within its episodes it does pass the Bechdel test. The female characters do talk about men in it’s episodes but it doesn’t only ever involve a woman’s life revolving around a